Held on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Hồ Chí Minh, this international colloquium will interrogate Hồ’s role in the formation of modern Vietnam and explore the country’s position in world affairs in the 20th Century. Participants will share their new multi-lingual and multi-archival research and past works on the life, career, and legacy of Hồ Chí Minh. This colloquium also serves to announce a new partnership between Columbia University and the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi.

The colloquium will feature:

• Pham Quang Minh, Rector and Professor, Department of International Studies, Vietnam National University

• Do Quang Hung, Professor, Department of Political Science, Vietnam National University

• Tran Viet Nghia, Associate Professor and Director of the Office for the Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities,Vietnam National University

• Pham Hong Tung, Professor and Director, Institute of Vietnamese Studies and Development Science,Vietnam National University

Outside Vietnam:

• Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia, Columbia University

• Olga Dror, Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University and Fellow, National Humanities Center (2019-2020)

• Pierre Asselin, Professor and Dwight E. Stanford Chair in American Foreign Relations, Department of History, San Diego State University

• Alec Holcombe, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Ohio University

This is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute 70th Anniversary event.

No registration required. Click here for the full schedule of events.